Posted on 02/17/2008 8:40:46 AM PST by Salman
Here's an example of how schools should be treating diversity in their schools. Perhaps this kind of example can help prevent incidents like the murder that happened in Oxnard, California.
CNN interviews Kim Pearson of Trans Youth Family Advocates about an eight-year-old transgender-identified child who is returning to a school in Douglas County, Colorado that has adjusted its facilities and teaching environment to accommodate her.
According to CNN, two unisex bathrooms have been provided for the student, teachers will call the student by her name, parents and teachers will get info on transgender people, and officials will be made available for questions.
The school released this statement: "We continue to be focused on providing a positive learning environment for this student and all students in the class and school that is free from harassment. As with many other students, this particular student brings a diverse set of circumstances to the school setting."
(Excerpt) Read more at towleroad.com ...
It's not just about preventing bullying.
an eight-year-old transgender-identified child
At eight years old this child has not any knowledge of what it means to be either sex so how can this child make an informed decision on gender?
What is going on with these parents and why isn’t anyone considering this?
Too bad the kid didn’t just identify as a Transformer as most 8-year-old boys do. Then he could still use the boys’ room.
Tomboys of the world unite. You are about to be transgendered before you even know what gender means. The people who run that school district are out of their freakin’ minds.
How does an 8 y/o realize that s/he is “transgender” w/o input from adults?
Let’s just promote mental illness as normal.
How can one be transgendered when one hasn’t even hit puberty yet? I bet this kid’s parents aren’t folks I’d want to meet.
What do you expect? It's California.
I'll bet this kid's parents are the reason this kid is gender-confused.
Hell, at that age I had a tea set. Today some enterprising psychologist would have prescribed a dress, ignoring the fact that I also had a toy tommy gun, 6 shooters, baseball and other boy stuff. (Mr)NHD
That’s wrong on so many levels.
They’re recruiting ‘em young!
Mommy obviously wanted a daughter.
It’s “parents” are the gay’s in the village legislature who seek desperately to normalize their own sickness by controling others through laws.
It takes a village to ruin a child.
This is child abuse.
how can they be so certain that when this child becomes
an adult, he/she won’t become unhinged for being manipulated
by his/her teachers/predator?
8-year-olds can’t get tattoos...buy or drink alcohol...drive...join the service...get married...holy cow! He should be buying comic books not making decisions like this. When are the parrents going to take responsibility for raising kids, instead of allowing the kids (or anyone else) to make decisions like this? Think it’s a media stunt?
This kid must have terrible parents.
If he even has two involved adult parents ?
Bingo! We have an eight y/o boy on a private cheer leading squad. He wears makeup, squeals and waves like a girl. No Dad, and Mom is a petulant piece of work. He’s pretty much the laughing stock. I often wonder what things go through his mind at night before he drifts off to sleep.
You’re so right. I would have been considered a transgender! I rode horses and wanted to be Tonto ( I had blonde hair and blue eyes - go figure). Then at the right age I discovered boys and gave up my bow and arrows. This is ridiculous and disturbing. Every little boy who plays with dolls or little girl who wants to be a cowboy when she grow up will be under scrutiny. Colorado idiots ride again!
Thank God the schools didn’t try to facilitate my fantasies when I was a kid.
Then they give out ritalin like candy.
If that doesn’t work they come up with another drug.
Then we have a school shooting and they blame gun owners and pass more gun laws.
The “parent” shown at the source link looks like Hillary Clinton if she gained 150 lbs.
God help that poor child. I wish he could come live with me and a pack of real boys! (And girls with weapons ...)
Johnny has two mommies that wished he was a little girl.
Anyone want to bet?
Wow! At eight years old I thought I was a Pirate! And at six I thought I was a Cowboy!
For the past several weeks he has donned a cape and ran around the house chasing his younger brother and threatening him a monotone robotic voice.
Should I encourage it?
If you still shoot you can be extremely popular with some FReeper guys!
Okay okay....I just woke up...got out of bed...I am eating breakfeast and reading FR, and I come upon this story!!!!
I have not had my coffee yet!!!!
Just how the hell can a 8 year old be transgender? He is 8 years old for the love of Pete!! What am I missing here?
I don't doubt it.
Older foks like me have seen the decline, but it's our children who'll have to witness/suffer the fall.
Barring a couple dozen miracles, our nation is f****d.
/$0.02
Yep, you have to wonder where the state authorities are on this? I guess out harrassing home schoolers.
Not only should you encourage him/her, you should insist the school provide a restroom for transformer robots.
Synonyms: “Public schools” and “Sodom and Gomorrha”
I think they like to have referred to as getting their oil changed.
Barring a couple dozen miracles, our nation is f****d.
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Ping for later response.
Actually its COLORADO.
The first line references in killing in Oxnard, California while the story is about a school in Colorado.
Of course you should encourage him, and not repress his self-chosen species identity. /s However, there’s a significant chance that if you encourage this, when he grows up he’ll end up in the Air Force, with an aeronautical, aerospace, or mechanical engineering degree, and he’ll still have a deep emotional attachment to his voice-changing Optimus Prime helmet.
Because sex and gender are two separate things. We know our genders from birth, which is why even very young boys and girls act so differently. It's actually pretty typical for a transgender condition to manifest itself in early childhood.
So?
One of my classmates (1970’s) was born w/o a penis. He was a guy genetically, but had no penis.
He was always given private dressing and bathroom facilities. Otherwise, no special treatment.
I guess I’m having trouble seeing the problem in accommodating that 1 out of a million who really do have serious biological gender issues.
When I told his teacher what he had said, she said she had to watch him on the playground because he would slip into the building and put on the women's clothes--meant for little girls, of course-- in the play area. She said the kid's father was a big redneck and would probably kill the little boy when he found out the kid's problem.
If I had not known this little boy, I would think kids didn't know about such things. The thing is, they don't know yet there is anything "wrong" with the way they feel.
I have wondered whatever happened to that little kid.
I don't think anybody expressing opinions here has any expertise in knowing anything about the subject. I know I don't!
Barring a couple dozen miracles, our nation is f****d.( tomkat)
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The Marxist government school administrators **know** full well what they are doing. The goal here is complete destruction of the Judeo Christian culture upon which all freedom rests. If they succeed we a looking a 1,000 Dark Age. Unfortunately, they have armies of not too bright teachers willing to help them.
They also have a cadre of simpleton Christian teachers who think that by selling out their principles for a paycheck they can sprinkle a little “salt and light” around in the schools.
Just for consideration... how about this child being a hermaphrodite? There are quite a lot of variations on this condition, not to mention that exterior genitalia being male, child assigned male sex at birth, but actually having interior genitalia as female and possibly having hormonal identity as female [or vice versa]. 8 years of age seems to be an age where sexual identity starts to be confusing for these children and then gets rather intense with puberty.
I’m not sure what the chromosomal identity means in these cases. Mostly it’s pretty darned sad for those with this gender mess. From some accounts that I’ve read, most people would prefer transgendered to hermaphrodite because it’s actually less of a stigma.
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